Improvement in turbine water-wheels



j waited tutet @wat @time JULIUS EJONES, or CHARLTON-,MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 97 ,7 7 8 dated December 14, 1869.

MPROVEMENT IN TURBINE WATER-WHEELS.

, The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sume.

I, J ULIUs H. J oNEs, o'f Charlton, in-the county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Water-Wheels, of 4 which tbe-following is a specification. i

j My invention relates to that class of Wheels known as turbines, which-receive the water all around the sides or periphery, and discharge itat the bottom; ,and

lts nature consists in arranging two` series of :buckets, with such form of dividing-rim between them, and such form of wheel or surf'ace confining the water to .the upper series as shallgive afvertical discharge, said upper buckets being of a twisted spiral form, with the outer end or edge perpendicular, to receive the water,

and the lower one horizontal, to give a verticaldischarge. The other series, attached below the dividingrim,are quarter-twist buckets, more innumber than the former, and like them in re'ceiving and ds, charging the water. v

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a view of-.mv wheel, showing the bottom and one side.

Figure 2 is a Vertical central section.

Figure 3 showsthe forms of the buckets.

A is the shaft;

B, the body and upper rim;

0, the dividing rim; y

D, the upper series of buckets supporting the rim O, they being rmly secured to B;

E, the lower series, attached to the rim O;

'o u. o n, lines showing the `water-way; and

s p s 1J, the discharge.

This arrangement enables me to present the great-l est surface of bucket for the size of wheel compatible with effective 110W of water, and thus to `secure the greater power.

I claim the Wheel,.composed of vtbe'two series of buckets, `D and E, both having a vertical inlet and horizontal discharge, and the rims B and O, confining' the water admitted to the upper series to them, when constructed aud operating as above set forth and described.

' J ULIUS H. JONES.

Witnesses: f

A. GREENE, JAS. G. ARNOLD. 

